Thank you, George Halas (d. 1983).
Thank you, and all the other APFA pioneers who conceived & nurtured what would come to be known as the National Football League (1921).
Thanks to those visionaries in leather helmet and fedora who kept their experiment in professionalism alive through the lean & mean early years (Depression / WW2), offering America an alternative to the campus frolic o...

I wasn’t surprised when Cardinals’ QB Derek Anderson got defensive Monday night.
NFL players and coaches are wound-up tight, especially on game-day.
Unfortunate for them, the collective bargaining agreement requires they make themselves available for questions after a game, sometimes half-dressed in front of their lockers. What a joy that must be for players after a tough loss.
And it’s...

Somewhere, George Halas is smiling.
In preparation for their game against North division rival Minnesota last Sunday, Chicago coach Lovie Smith employed a tactic right outta Papa Bear’s playbook.
One of the founding fathers of the NFL, Halas, like many of his coaching colleagues, was known to use every trick in the book to give his teams an advantage, even if that meant a slip & slid play...

The Buffalo Bills are coming off their bye week and are heading to Baltimore to visit the Ravens. With the Ravens picked to go to the playoffs and the Bills to finish last in the league, Sunday's game will be an uphill battle for Buffalo. Scoring points will be hard to come by, 30th ranked offense versus 3rd ranked defense doesn't bode well for the Bills. On defense Buffalo will need to keep th...